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unusual facts about Indian government



Afsir Karim

He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board (1999–2001), and was awarded the AVSM for distinguished service of an exceptional order by the Indian government for his military service.

Bharat Electronics

It is owned by the Indian Government & primarily manufactures advanced electronic products for the Indian Armed Forces.

Dantewada

Over the last year, more than 350 people have been killed and 50,000 moved into camps in the Dantewada district, as a result of a battle between Maoist (Naxalite) rebels and an Indian government-funded militia called Salwa Judum.

Gurdial Singh Dhillon

Dhillon served two terms as Speaker of Lok Sabha (1969–71 and 1971–75) and was Minister of Agriculture in the Indian Government (1986–1988).

Habibia High School

The Indian government funded the rebuilding of the school in 2003, it committed $5 million for the restoration project.

Kev Hawkins

Kev's regiment was once loaned to the Indian government, and the mission saw his friend Danny killing an elephant.

Lambretta GP/DL

The Indian Government purchased much of the tooling from Lambretta and continued production of GP/DL clone scooters under Scooters India Ltd (SIL).

Microsoft India PL

The company first entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market.

National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms

The National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM) is an Indian Government organized microbial culture repository located in NCL, Pune, in western India.

Spices Board of India

The Spices Board is the Indian government regulatory and promotion agency for Indian spices.

Thang-Ta

In 2009 Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma, a leading exponent and teacher of thang-ta, received the high Padma Shri honor award from the Indian Government for his contributions to the preservation and advancement of the art.

Timeline of Bihar

1952 Indian Government adopts symbols of ancient Imperial Bihar (Ashoka Chakra added to the Indian flag, the Lion Pillor is made the symbol of the central government of India, all state governments, reserve bank, and the military, whilst the Rupee, introduced in Bihar, is retained as the currency)

Zaranj

A new highway called Route 606 was built between Zaranj and Delaram in Farah province by the Indian Government's Border Roads Organization at a cost of about US $136 million to open up a link between the deep sea port at Chabahar in Iran to Afghanistan's main ring road highway system which connects Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz.


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1898 in Afghanistan

Sir James Westland, when speaking at Simla in June, warmly eulogizes the conduct of the amir, and says that the tribesmen should now see that although the Indian government made an agreement with the amir, that agreement was not intended to interfere in any way with their independence.

1899 in Afghanistan

In consequence of repeated outrages committed by the Waziris, and especially because of the murder of Col. E.H. le Marchant of the Hampshire Regiment, the Indian government orders the partial disarmament of the Peshawar division, and of all trans-border Pashtuns at the frontier, and the disarmament of all persons without licenses in all municipalities and cantonments within the division.

Abraham Wald

Wald and his wife died in an airplane crash in the Nilgiri mountains, in southern India, while on an extensive lecture tour at the invitation of the Indian government.

Amarnath land transfer controversy

The Indian government alleges that the claims of an economic blockade were fabricated by the Hurriyat and the Inter-Services Intelligence to provoke locals into joining the pro-independence protests.

Amrut Nagar

There was only the ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, an Indian Government undertaking) quarters, which were not owned, but rather provided to the employees of ONGC by the Government.

Annabhau Sathe

(The community has been identified by the Indian government as a SC scheduled caste.)

Bharat Stage emission standards

In 2002, the Indian government accepted the report submitted by the Mashelkar committee.

Clement Hindley

This latter role made him the chief advisor to the Indian government on railways and he used this to institute a reform of the railway sector including the opening of the Railway Staff College, the reorganisation of the Railway Department and the bringing of the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular railways into public ownership.

Clifford Thomason Beckett

Prior to his military career Beckett’s father William had been a senior Civil Engineer, working on behalf of the Indian government.

Dabhol Power Company

In 1996 when India's Congress Party was no longer in power, the Indian government assessed the project as being excessively expensive and refused to pay for the plant and stopped construction.

Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences

In 2010 DIPAS team under supervision of Dr. G Ilavazhagan (former director) was actively involved into the study of Prahlad Jani, performed in cooperation with Sterling Hospitals and under supervision of the Indian Government and other organizations, like SRISTI.

Director General of Forests

Indian Government has only one post for the Director General of Forests.An officer posted at this level has completed about 35 years of service in the IFS.

Helwan HA-300

A total of 135 million Egyptian pounds was spent on the development, and the E-300 engine was given to the Indian government for use in the HF-24 Marut fighter.

India–Pakistan cricket rivalry

India and Pakistan qualified for the first semi-final in Chandigarh, India, and the Indian government invited the Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to watch the match along with his Indian counterpart, Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Janjua

He chaired the enquiry into the death of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1956, and later became an Indian Government Central Minister.

Johar Ali Khan

He represented India in countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, England, Syria, Fiji, Djibouti, Addis Ababa, the Netherlands, Estonia, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, France, Belgium, Finland, Sharjah, Dubai, and several African countries, through Indian government and some private organizations.

Kasim Razvi

He is quoted to have said "Death with the sword in hand, is always preferable to execution by a mere stroke of the pen", prompting the Indian government to call him the "Nizam's Frankenstein monster".

Krishnaswamy Sundarji

In 1987, the Indian government agreed to a Sri Lankan request and the Indian Peace Keeping Force was sent to Jaffna to disarm the LTTE.

Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project

Professor G. D. Agrawal (b. 1932), former dean of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in the first week of March 2009 called off his second fast in a year against Himalayan dam projects, after the Indian government agreed to speed up its inquiry into how electricity could be generated without the flow of the Ganges being impeded.

Mangala Area

Royal Dutch Shell won the licensing round for Block RJ-ON-90-1 in 1992 from the Indian Government, entering into a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with them.

Morris Travers

In 1901-1902 Ramsay had been asked to advise the Indian government on the founding of a science institute and the institute was established in Bangalore with the help of the Government of Mysore and JN Tata.

Nataraja

The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India.

National Capital Authority

There was also interest in Classicism by English architects, including Edwin Lutyens, who was responsible for many of the public buildings in New Delhi built from 1912 to 1929 in the wake of the decision to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government.

Robin Lindsay

Lindsay was born in Delhi, where his father was a civil engineer for the Indian government, and was educated at St Joseph's College in Darjeeling.

Sarada Vidyalayam

The school is funded by charitable donations raised by Dr. Chandra and the Sankurathri Foundation and receives no financial assistance from the Indian government or the parents of its students.

Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project

Conceived as early as 1860 by Alfred Dundas Taylor, it recently received approval of the Indian government, which plans to break the limestone shoals of Adam's Bridge as part of this project.

Shabeg Singh

The vindictiveness of Indian Government and the Army Chief was made obvious, when one day prior of Gen Shabeg's retirement, on April 30, 1976 the hero of Mukti Bahini, a highly decorated general with PVSM & AVSM, who had been actively involved in every operation that Indian Army fought since his joining service and who spent the major portion of his life in field areas separated from the cost of his wife's health and the education of his children was dismissed from the Army.

Siddharth Katragadda

He is the grandson of Sahitya Academy Award winning Telugu writer, Tripuraneni Gopichand, and great-grandson of revolutionary poet/reformer, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, both of whose postage stamps were released by the Indian Government for their contribution to Telugu Literature.

Smoking in India

Woody Allen refused to release his film Blue Jasmine in India because he objected to anti-tobacco ads that the Indian government requires cinemas to play before and during movies that feature scenes with characters smoking.

Solar bus

Indian government has launched various projects to introduce new and efficient solar power buses and the buses will be launched in the city of Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore.